Past event
Jameel Prize: Poetry to Politics
From graphic design to fashion, architecture to activism, this exhibition celebrated contemporary design inspired by Islamic tradition through the work of eight designers from India, Iran, Lebanon, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and the UK.
This exhibition is now closed at V&A South Kensington
Exhibition highlights
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Ye Harvest From the Eleven-Page Letter, by Golnar Adili, 2016 -
Layt Allathi Bayni Wa Baynaka, by Hadeyeh Badri, 2018 -
Shroud, by Kallol Datta, 2018 -
Kufur typeface, by Farah Fayyad, 2018 -
Paradise Has Many Gates – Daytime, by Ajlan Gharem, 2015 -
Samosa Packet on the culture of dissent and protest in India. Designed and made by Sofia Karim using photographs by Harsha Vadlamani from his ‘Chalo Dilli’ series. Part of Sofia Karim’s Turbine Bagh project, 2019-ongoing. -
Kitab al-Hawamish (Book of Margins), by Jana Traboulsi, 2017 -
Untitled, by Bushra Waqas Khan, 2019
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Header image:
Paradise Has Many Gates – Daytime, by Ajlan Gharem, 2015. © Photograph by Ajlan Gharem